Meg Tilly quotes
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“It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years.”
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“I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.”
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“I didn't plan to act, but I'm glad I'm doing it - and I just want to keep getting better.”
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“Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.”
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“I'm not that fashion-conscious. A lot of times, when women are appearing to be so perfect, it's because they're a mess underneath.”
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“I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need.”
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“That is why it's so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life.”
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“I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while, all my characters become very close friends.”
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“I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.”
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“There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you.”
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“I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.”
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“If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.”
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“I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when Im contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.”
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“Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.”
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“I paid more attention to the way I looked before my children were born. Afterward, it wasnt important to look exactly right.”
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“I didnt start really making changes in my life until I was actually in my mid-20s. And all of a sudden I was like, wait a minute. I was trying so hard to be what I thought I was supposed to be, instead of just allowing myself to be what I-what I was or what I am.”
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“I know that in order to be considered successful, youre supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.”
-- Meg Tilly
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